It seems strange to say that I don’t have a lot of information about my Grandmother Smith. There were certainly lots of people in my life who knew her well. Most of what I know came from my mother who did not get along with her and didn’t have many good memories of her.
Alice was born April 5, 1876 in Horton Twp., Ontario. She married Adoniram Warner Smith April 13, 1904 in Rutherglen. She became a large woman as her children were born, but developed diabetes in her later years and lost her excess weight.
I was born in 1956, so I only have one memory of her and even that memory is only of her feet. She was sitting in a big arm chair and I was sitting on the floor at her feet colouring or drawing. She had black heeled shoes on. That’s it.
She died April 29, 1959 at the home of her daughter, Georgena Buchanan, in North Bay and is buried at Terrace Lawn Cemetery.
I’m very certain that Aunty Jo and Uncle Jake are buried head-to-head with Alice and Adoniram. I recall Aunty Jo telling me, on a visit to Terrace Lawn Cemetery, that she had already bought and arranged for her and Uncle Jake to be buried in the “touching” plots. Logically, I’m not sure how she arranged this with the cemetery, but sure enough, if you visit Terrace Lawn, the “front” of the grave stone is marked with Alice and Adoniram’s names, while the back of the same of stone is marked with Aunty Jo and Uncle Jake.
Children of Adoniram and Alice Smith
- Nide and his Children
- Lloyd George Smith
- Georgena “Jo” Alice Smith (Buchanan)
- Vera Myrtle Smith (Hughes)
- Chester Warner Smith
- Elmo Adoniram Smith
- Edna Eliza Smith (Ollivier)
- Emmett Richard Smith
